Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-02

Si'nr, soihg over or coming back; stopped
IN Greenville four or five minutes; 1t was
raining hard; some OF the parties got out; /
khe" Mr., schultz; did not see him; /
drose back in compliance with orders,
10 IN front OF Junk's saloon; could
not say. whether electric lights were
had four men in hack the men got
out at Junks; | drove Oft as sooon as / got
my 81 don't know who it was that handed
ue inc money; 1t was one of the foul; they
eac" wore rubber coats; they got | in front
OF - Hubbard one of the men Il me to
driI. the four to Greenville; have en- hack
ana bus driver for years; did not " Leav-
1T; knew George Tri, Der; did not know
Henry Peters; did not know Louis Plath;
could not tell any Of the parties that were in
the hack nor the man that gave me the
the money after letting the men out ! vent
to the Pacific train; time OF arrival was 1915;
the witness was not cross-evamined.
CHRIS SCHULTZ
Sworn Live at Grtenville: was living there
last August; my place faces the south; is a
porch I'm front; remember the night Haddock
Killed; heard of a murder next morning.;
remember a hack diving TO my place about
10 O'Clock; | was In bar room; the door was
open; the hack stopped at my place; I was
In a chair, partially asleep; woke up, saw
hind wheels OF hack and heard some taking;
| got up and asked IL thew wanted anything;
l didn't 90 out; | was sitting on east side
oil the door: the men in the hack said, when
asked II they wanted anything: 'No, we
don't want anything" One of the parties
was out of the hack; Ed Rowlev was sitting
next to me inside OF the house. The witness
was not cross-t Xamined.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Court was promptly called on time,
the attendance being very large; every
available place in the DON was occu-
pied by people either sitting or stand
ing. A large number of ladies were
present.
VII JUNK.
Sworn: Am IL Years ola; son OF James
Junk; remember the MI tot August 8; heard
OF the Haddock murder between 10 and IL
that night by persons coming in and saving
that he was killed; | was working for father
in billiard hall, All electric light was burning
out on the sidewalk in front Of the saloon; /
was standing in doorway about 10 O'Clock;
saw a back drive UP In fr mt If door; ! saw
people get out; did not know the driver; saw
three get out OF the hack; uthey started for
thee door to the billiard hall and went inside;
1t was slightly raining !: none Of the men that
got out of hack had on gum coats; Harry
Leavitt was one Of the men hat eot out OF
the hack ! didn't ace enough Of the Others to
them; did not see any one pay the
driver; don't know whether the driver was
paid or not; don't remember which way the
hack drove when 1t went away; | did not go
into the saloon part OF the builsipg while the
parties were there; did not see John Orion
about there shat night; the hack came frsm
the east.
Witness was not cross-exaM'ncd.
JAMES sCOLLARD SWORN.
Have lived here niteen yeaIs; WAS street
commissioner last August; am well ac-
quaiuted In the city; have known Arensdorf
seven years; have seen MIN nearly every day;
was a. the council meeting the night Of the
murder; X. q. Grady and / went to Junk's
We entered the barroom from the
rear end Of the billiard 70 m; when Grady
and ] came up John Orton and James Junk
were standing at the door on the out
of Orion or Junk; in C, ming out
Of the saloon onto the street met John Arens-
dori near the door; the east room has a cross
partition al the rear; It was u llq uor store In
front, the bar room at the rear; when Grady
ana 1 came into front room from the rear,
there were four men there besides Junk Geo.
Trieber, Fred Munchra h aud two others be-
sides Junk Arensdorf then came in; Leavitt
came in also; they said something about pay
ing for a hack the last man That came IN
(Leav,tD said that the hack had been settled
for; ] did not know l. 'avitt then tut learned
who he was afterW ards; he had on a gum coat,
buttoned to the chin; saw no popularity
about Arensdorf's dress that might; he
usually wore dark colered clothes; a blue
sack coat; could not say as to his pants; don't
remember what colored parts he usually
wore; don't think these parties were IN there
over five minutes; saw Leavitt get cigars; l
think they went out Of the front door; they
all went out bur Junk. Orton, Grady and my
self; Grady ard ! went back 10 the saloon
part, whore we remained about i've minutes;
we Their went down 10 the Academy; heard
the shot when We were near Gorwey's hard
ware store on our way TO the ACADEMY; from
the time Arensdorf and the Others went out
NJ limbo until I hoard the shnt IL w.g abpnt
len or fifteen minutes; after got to the
Academy | heard a man was shot.
Cross-txamination-Dldn't notice partic-
ularly when Areusdorf went out Of Junk's,
nor whether the other parties went with him.
q. GRADY SWORN.
Have known ArcusdOrt + X or seven years;
know Munchrath and Tr,"ber, don't know
Plath; knew Leavitt three or four months be-
fore the murder; was al council that night;
tie council aGjonrred about 10 O'Clock;
James Scollard aud ] went away together;
We went 10 Junk's; The first party ] saw
there, ] guess, was the o.rheeper Naughter);
w went from the saloon TO the front room,
and Munchrath, Trieber, AreDsdorf and
Leavitt, these / knew, they came into the
saloon together; Leavltt bought some
thcv then went out of the front
door; don't Ii oW what erection they went;
when these parties went out all that were left
that | can remember were Junk. Scollard and
myself; Scotland and went into the back
room again, then we went out on the side
walk; we were between Nash's and Goewey's
when | heard the shot; it must have been
twenty minutes from the time the parties left
Junk's until / heard the shot.
Cross-eXamined Did not pay any atten-
ton to the order In which the parties went;
don't know the direction they took.
wM WILLIAMSON
called. The sheriff stated that he had
been suhpoened by two different officers.
Last night he heard of him. He was al out
nine miles from the city. An attainment was
issued for him..
7. p. MURPHY
Sworn. | was in Fort Dodge the Sd day OF
August; came nome on the Central train that
night; the train came In a little ahead Of
time; 1t was due at 1913; l then lived on
West Third street; j passed the Columbia
house on my way home; went home In a hack;
my wife was sick at The time; | have since
learned that the drivers name was William
son VIC came up Nebraska To Fourth then
west on Fourth home; the hack stopped
on Fourth street west of Pearl; az We went
cast Pearl on Fourth the hack was stopping;
someone had hailed it about the alley between
Pearl and Water; the hack drove over to the
south curbstore; ! was alone In the hack at
this point; almost imm' dia'ely after the hack
stopped I heard a conversations; | looked out
and saw Fred Munchrath. jr.; he was talking
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